Lydia Davis, based in upstate New York, is a leading contemporary
American author and translator of French. She has published four collections
of short stories: Break It Down (1986); Almost No Memory
(1997); Samuel Johnson Is Indignant (2001); and
Varieties of Disturbance (2007), the last of which has
been nominated for a National Book Award. Lydia Davis has also translated
into English works by such avant-garde novelists and memoirists as
Maurice Blanchot, Pierre Jean Jouve, and Michel Leiris, and most recently
Marcel Proust's Swann's Way (2002), which was awarded the French-American
Foundation's 2003 Translation Prize. She is on the faculty of SUNY-Albany
and is a Fellow of the New York State Writers Institute.
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